And finally after being very patient (or drunk) I managed to get a Youtube
video to playback. Flash "just works" in Webconverger as the non-free
flash plugin is preloaded.

I did then try watch an OGG video from Ubuntu's Firefox and it did manage to
playback, which was impressive. However it was not inline
HTML of course. I was unable
to seek through the video and then I tried to watch the video again and it
didn't seem to work at all. Sad.

Webconverger used to have quite a few versions, namely supporting different
i18n locales. Now it's just mini and maxi. Ubuntu 8.10 has many
flavours; "Ubuntu", JeOS, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, Mythbuntu and I think
some more. Whatever happened to Debian's task selector with Ubuntu!

Anyway, I really think Ubuntu should endeavour to improve the user experience
via the Web. The Web is the free software platform. Not these horrible
Gnome/KDE "Windows" throwbacks.